[rshnotsecure]

Google has tried to do this before and gotten good press with as far as I can tell close to 0 results [1].

Their last program was basically just "office hours" on how to use Google Analytics in libraries across beset former rust belt cities.

They did have a consistent office hours for their one pilot program in New York that people could also call into, but it was mostly college kids who were brilliant, talented, and going to get a job anyway the couple of times I shadowed.

The saddest part was probably their previous partnering with Goodwill. 0 people were hired from this partnership. This was back in 2017 when it was hard to know, but that organization is under significant litigation now for practices such as paying sub minimum wage (sub $1) to mentally disabled employees, paying board members well in excess of 6 figures, etc.

I say this as someone who considers GCP their favorite cloud and consistently recommends it to customers where security is a priority.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/technology/google-job-tra...

[aamoscodes]

I believe you, but is there a source for the “0 people were hired” claim? It’ll be interesting to have as these programs become more popular.

[rshnotsecure]

That is a fair question. My answer is in the absence of evidence, or even any claim that Google specifically makes that X got hired because of Y Google Program and now works at Z.

I worked with two good reporters to look into this. There is no documentation one can find at https://grow.google/partners/ or at https://google.org. Those websites lead to perhaps 200 significant links, and we scoured every PDF on the sites. Also we checked LinkedIn for those who had the IT Support certs. Nothing.